Word: prisoners
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Divguid said that the Pratt case points to the larger issue of U.S. prison expansion and conditions...
...midnight, the better to avoid the crowds that congregated at daylight hangings. But with Texas' hectic killing schedule, a lot of folks were forced to miss a lot of sleep, so in 1995 the Texas department of criminal justice moved the time to the dinner hour, 6 p.m. Prison officials got to go to bed early, and judges did not have to be wakened with last-minute appeals...
China's extensive laogai ("reform through labor") political prison camp system more than rivals the horrors of the Soviet gulags. Not only does China use forced prisoner labor for megalomanical domestic infrastructure projects, the political prisoner population is also used as slave labor for the export market, producing products that range from mineral water to watchbands to rosaries to artificial Christmas trees, according to the Sept. 29 Weekly Standard...
Youngworth says he and Connor had nothing to do with the original crime, and he has a pretty good alibi: both were in prison at the time. Youngworth now faces up to 15 years in prison on the auto-theft conviction. Last month he met privately with Gardner directors and reportedly extracted a $10,000 down payment on a reward for promising to produce some of the stolen goods. He will probably try to negotiate down his sentence in exchange for more details. All things considered, that may be a small price to pay for figuring out who pulled...
...years to recommend his release for fear his death in custody would prompt even more Hamas-sponsored carnage. Others have worried that Yassin was too dangerous to go free. They had prevailed until the early hours of last Wednesday, when Yassin was transported secretly by ambulance from an Israeli prison hospital to an airstrip in Tel Aviv. From there a Jordanian royal helicopter flew him to the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman. At 4 a.m. the Israeli army, citing his poor health, announced that Yassin had been pardoned...